1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 256C Handicapped Persons
Section 256C.01 Position of the state with regard to the blind and handicapped.

256C.01 Position of the state with regard to the blind and handicapped.

The state of Minnesota shall encourage and enable the blind, the visually handicapped, and the otherwise physically disabled to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and to engage in remunerative employment. The blind, the visually handicapped, and the otherwise physically disabled shall be employed by the state, its political subdivisions, the public schools, and in all other employment supported in whole or in part by public funds on the same terms and conditions as the able-bodied, unless it is shown that the particular disability prevents the performance of the work involved.

HIST: 1969 c 900 s 1; 1971 c 70 s 3

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